Rehearsal Report #1.

Thanks to you, we started work in NY on Sunday night and had our first full rehearsal yesterday. I figured the easiest thing to share would be our Stage Manager's notes from the day -- what we did, what we changed, what we need, and what we are doing today.

In short, it was a fantastic day. The cast is amazing, Sarah, our director, is fluid, easy, smart and FAST. And it is a triple thrill to be performing in the museum, with two of Henry Darger's collages watching over us.

CHANGE: “It starts in my toes and moves to my knees” to “It starts in your toes and move to yourknees.”

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ANNIE

CHANGE: “You too, Beatrice. It’s okay to like girls” to “You too, Beatrice. You’re okay just like you are.”

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ANNIE/BEATRICE

MOVE: “But just tell me what you want…What if it’s what I don’t want?” to after HENRY: Yes. Yes. (on page 23)

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BEA

CHANGE: “I don’t know if we should” to “I don’t thinkwe should go. I think we should stay right here.”

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ANNIE

HAS THE LINE: …well that’s why I was writing…

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SWEETIE PIE

CHANGE “The Last Time You Felt The Wind” to the present tense:

I lift your hair / I caress your neck / I whisper sweet nothings to you. / I graze your skin / I talk to your flesh / I wrap your body in mine. / I tease the leaves Into a swirling eddy / I spin the air for you. / You ignore my touch / You mock my desire / You shut the door on me. / So I turn up the volume / So I turn up the heat / I’m a minstral, a tempest, the draft around your feet.

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BEATRICE

SHOULD READ: No thank you. That’s not what I…(sighs)…nevermind.

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BEA

CHANGE: I always felt different.

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MOTHER VIV

CUT: Can you shut the window, Beatrice?

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MYRNA

CHANGE: “Please stay!” to “Please! Just come over here with me!”

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MYRNA

CUT: Do you want to stay? If you wanted to, stayyou would find a way. Do you like me?

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MYRNA/SWEETIE PIE

ADD to END OF SONG: Things will never be the same. / Never be the same.

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EUDORA

CHANGE: “I want to be a boy” to “I don’t like the way I look.”

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HENRIETTA

LINE SHOULD READ: What can we do? Adelaide is gone. And that…other one…is missing.